Vulnerability to Poverty in Papua New Guinea in 1996 |
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| Authors: | Raghbendra Jha Tu Dang |
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| Institution: | 1. Australia South Asia Research Centre, Arndt‐Corden Division of Economics, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia;2. We are grateful to the International Fund for Agricultural Development for financial support through grant number ANU 927–ASARC, to an anonymous referee for helpful comments, the Editor for encouragement, J. Gibson for his help in clarifying the data and Raghav Gaiha and Katsushi Imai for useful advice.;3. ASARC, Arndt‐Corden Division of Economics, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
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| Abstract: | This paper uses cross‐section data from the 1996 Papua New Guinea Household Survey to assess household vulnerability to poverty in Papua New Guinea. Vulnerability varies across regions, household size, gender and level of education of households. We use a simple empirical model that permits estimation of vulnerability to poverty assuming that households have the same conditional distribution of consumption in a stationary environment. Although this approach does not capture all dimensions of vulnerability, it at least raises the policy interest that vulnerability should be considered alongside poverty. |
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| Keywords: | poverty vulnerability cross‐section data Papua New Guinea C21 C23 C26 I32 |
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